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...never gave up its pursuit of my bag of documents. In March 1981, I visited a dental clinic where I was having some work done. The dental technician insisted that because this was a surgical office, I'd have to leave my bag outside. When I went to reclaim the bag, it was gone. The KGB had struck a powerful blow: I lost notes on scientific matters and current events, personal documents and letters, my diary for the past 14 months and three thick notebooks containing the manuscript of these memoirs...
Able to cover a swath of sky from Iceland to the northern coast of South America, the OTH radar can monitor a smuggler's plane from soon after it takes off in, say, Colombia until it reaches the U.S. When a technician in Bangor sees an unscheduled flight over the Caribbean, the information will be relayed - to the Pentagon's Joint Task Force Center in Key West, Fla. An Air Force fighter will follow the suspect plane, and officers of the Customs Service and the Drug Enforcement Administration will be alerted to the mystery craft's course so that they...
Aboard a U.S. attack submarine, a technician suddenly clamps on his headphones as bluish-white symbols dance on the cathode-ray screens before him. He is picking up an eerie metallic message: the echoes of a Soviet submarine nosing through the black depths of the Atlantic 40 miles away. A BC- 10 computer "washes" data through its analyzers and, amazingly, tells the technician not only the type of sub he is hearing but the specific vessel...
...lived there all their lives cling to -- at least for the moment. "We have a culture -- theater, opera, community -- the other side doesn't have," says the woman on the train, the bright lights of West Berlin now behind her. "Our stores are not empty." She is 34, a technician for the state television network. Until November, she was last in the West when she was six. This night she has returned to West Berlin to go to a concert with a friend, her fourth visit since the Wall opened. Would she live in West Berlin or wish...
...People just don't trust the government," said Schreiber, a dental technician from Staaken outside East Berlin. He and his wife and son had been waiting seven hours in the cold and had a long wait still...